Modeling of sensitivity and resolution to an included object in homogeneous scattering media and in MRI-derived breast maps

Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 203-219

  Pei, Yaling ^a   Lin, Feng Bao ^a   Barbour, Randall L ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ONCOGENIC VIRUSES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EDGE RESOLUTION; PHANTOMS; PRECURSORS; REGION OF INTEREST (ROI);

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0003957459     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.5.000203     Document Type: Article

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